The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-02
CITIZENS, MEETING.
The Murder Of eambrell Strongly Con-
damned.

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DENIED.
BRooKHAvES, Miss, NAY %, 1887.
A mass meeting Of the citizens Of Brook
haven and vicinity wss held in the court
house tonight for the purpose Of express
ing their condemnation Of the foul assas
sination Of r D. Gambrell, and to insure
their moral and material aid in bringing
the perpetrators to justice:
The meeting was presided over by Jndgt
W. p. Bagget, and w. +. Parsons, acted a,
Secretary.
Rev r Parish, Hon X II Thompson
B I Hobbs and E L Bowen were appoint.
ed committee on resolutions and report.
ed the following, which were unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, on the night Of May 5, 1887,
Roderick ID Gambrell, editor of the Sword
and Shield, was quietly pursuing his way
home along the most public street of Jack
son, was waylaid and foully assassinated
by one Jones s Hamilton and others and
his body brutally mutilated, and
| Whereas, this atrocious crime was con-
ceived and executed because the fearless
and heroic young editor dared to expose
the moral and political corruption of said
Hamilton and his fellow corruptionists,
and said assassination was an audacious
attempt to silence free press, which is
the bulwark OF the people and guaranteed
by constitutional right; and
Whereas, this great crime, committed
under the very shadow Of the State capitol
and by State Senator, unless fitly expiat-
ed, will stand out as n foul and indelible
blot upon the escutcheon of Mississippi,
therefore
Resolved, That we, citizens of Lincoln
county and the State of Mississippi, are
one and inseparable in condemning assas-
sination as a method of settling private or
public grievances, and hereby express our
utter adherence of this dark deed and de-
mand that the constituted authorities of
our State mete out speedy and overland
ed justice to all the guilty parties.
Resolved, That as loyal and lawabiding
citizens we view with alarm this and many
other recent acts of assassination on the
soil of our State, and record it as orr SOL
emn conviction that the officers of the law
and all good citizens have a solemn re-
sponsibility resting upon them in this
grave crisis, which they cannot and should
not shirk, and we pledge onr moral and
material support in bringing the assassins
to justice.
Resolved, That in the death of Roder-
ick Gambrell the State has lost one of her
brightest, bravest and noblest sons and the
cause Of moral and political reform one of
its truest aud most loyal champions and
while expressing our deep regret at the
loss of one so young and whose life was so
full Of useful promise we at the same time
offer to his bereaved relatives and friends
our sincere sympathy and coincidence over
their irreparable loss.
Resolved, That the county papers, the
Sword and Shield the New Mississippian
and the State Ledger be requested to pub
fish the proceedings of this meeting.
Appropriate speeches were delivered by
Rev. J. r. Parish, B. T. Hobbs and Hon.
r. II. Thompson, and committee of three
consisting of Rev. J. r. Parish, B. T. Hobbs
and F. III. Hartman was appointed TO So
licit contributions to aid in the prosecution
of the criminals.
Adjourned,
w. P. BAGGETT,
Chairman.
w T. PARsOES Sec'v